As a newbie trying my first hatch with a broody I'm reading just about every topic on this board & I see that with incubators the humidity level is critical.
How will my broody get the humidity to where it should be?
It won't help give ya a anwser to your ? but isn't nature just one big miricale. Someone on the board is experimenting with this but not sure what the post is under maybe they will show up and help ya out.
If you notice they will pull alot of feathers from their chest and belly exposing their hot skin (105F body temp). By sitting and holding tight to the eggs the humidity naturally rises underneath her.
She will get off the nest when she wants to. You should not try to intervene with her natural broody behavior. She knows more than we do what is going on in those eggs. You should leave her be. She knows what she is doing instinctivly and will sit tight trying to hatch her eggs. Good luck to you.
They sure do know what they are doing. Last year I had a bantam hen go broody in July. Just a few days later we got the heat wave and had temps between 102-106 for 2 weeks straight. I know it was hotter than that in the hen house. I just knew there was no way that hen could hatch chicks. I noticed that she did not sit tight on the eggs like they usually do,but lifted herself up,exposing the eggs. She hatched 2 chicks(both pullets) which I think was pretty good,under the circumstances.